Not yet. Honestly think they aren’t showing their professionalism by just letting students hanging, giving only an email on the same day as the EA decision day to say they would delay the decision for up to another month. Meanwhile, many international students treated their applications seriously by submitting them early and most of all respected IU and did so much research about them.
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Have postponed their decisions. How else would like them to handle it? They let you know and need more time. Would you prefer they make rash decisions and. It take the time to actually look at the application?
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Is there a separate thread for Kelley petition trackers?
My D25 received a little “gift” over the weekend with a View Master and some films of pictures from her Meet Kelley experience. It had a little note to encourage her to file her petition—which she did back in October.
I think its just pre-planned marketing, and not an indication of open spots after the Auto DA rush Kelley would have welcomed this year.
I think her response was for me; international kids who applied EA, just like kids in state and OOS, are still waiting to hear while others heard on Jan 15. I am trying to find others in the same boat as my son - waiting and hoping. I completely appreciate the schools are overwhelmed with applicants, especially the great schools like UI.
Does IU match offers from other institutions or consider appeals for merit aid? Not able to find info on IU site.
I can’t imagine. You can ask. There’s no harm. But keep expectations low.
For business, the value prop is already strong and they know that in many cases they are less expensive than privates or a fallback for the tippy tops where someone didn’t get in given the relative ease of admission vs even some lower ranked schools. In other words, they’ll have no shortage of kids…if you are business especially.
Especially publics, likely have a ‘fairness’ clause. If they do for you……etc so they don’t.
But if you don’t ask, they can’t give more. I’d make it about more than x school gave you y $ but why would they want and need your kid!!
Also remember it’s about overall cost, not raw merit $$.
You probably saw this link. No merit mentioned on appeal.
Good luck
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Do we need to specifically apply for a merit scholarship or does the school automatically grant these? Thanks.
As ACE interviews are March7/8 at DA days your greatest chances at receiving an invite is to be registered on that date. They have not “all” been sent out, but “almost all.”
I’m sure there are many lurking on this thread who wish there was a Kelley specific. Kelley won’t know standard admit “spots” until after DA days. Attending DA days is their biggest predictor of yield. They’ll admit a select few standard admit next week. But vast majority will not hear anything until mid-March.
I’ve never heard of that occurring. At 10k enrollees I don’t think they care what you receive somewhere else. And it’s not apples to apples anyway
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I’m sure you meant direct admit (non Auto).
Looks like it will be a long wait.
I suspect this wait will eventually deflate all the excitement my D25 had about Kelley.
From a point she considered Kelley to be her top choice, and the only school she visited (despite a long flight), she’s slowly warming up to her other options.
Back in summer she was told that Kelley petitioners will start to hear from mid-Jan. Early Action makes zero sense for those not qualifying for Auto direct.
It’s important to have the perspective that IUB and almost every other relatively competitive college is looking at May 1 as date of enrollment not January 28. It’s natural for applicants to want to know and be excited, but that’s a small component. 10k or more IUB Kelley admits/applicants will be applying to schools which will tell them in mid-late March.
I have no idea why Kelley said mid-Jan because that was never ever happening. They do not care about the petition population at all. They are 100% about their direct auto admit group until April. Early Action makes sense for petitioners. It doesn’t make sense if you are making your decision in January on where to attend and not May 1. That’s a very small group of IUB applicants. It is the very rare competitive Kelley applicant who doesn’t have a very equal top choice or reach answering them in late March whether that’s IVY, UC schools, Ross, etc… That is their focus.
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You obviously know a lot, but I can tell you with certainty how much of Kelley communication has changed since last summer. On their website itself, they used to claim that majority of petitions ARE accepted. They have since taken it down.
Yes, and I’m glad they finally took that down. It was really outdated info.
I would love to see the institutional data for students at Kelley. Demographics, job placement, satisfaction in the program. Something tells me that it’s the top 10-25% of students mixed with the strength of the MBA program that is carrying the success and ranking. Using a DA policy to admit thousands of students some of whom may show little interest in the school or business or may have much lower gpa (let’s face is weighted 3.8 is not hard to attain), rigor or AP courses - I’m guessing there is a real range in student outcomes. The higher test score helps but there is much left to be desired here and many fantastic petition students left out. It is completely understandable that a school has to have some process to select students and while I don’t think this is necessarily a bad strategy, it may lead to some real issues that will need to be corrected at some point.
THIS. My D25 has a 3.7+ UW with Full IB Diploma in a school notorious for grade deflation + 1500 SAT; she’s left hanging among many such qualified candidates.
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Some of this info you can get on their website. Outcomes and Statistics in particular. For satisfaction, the most recent P&Q ranking has the Kelley undergrad program at #2 for Academic Experience (mix of alumni survey, classroom experiences, and placement within industry) and #14 overall.
I agree that their GPA policy for DA is weird. If IU Admissions recalculates GPA anyway, why not just go by that instead? It’s odd for something that’s so critical, since as a PP said, they love their Auto-DA students and “don’t care at all” about the petitioners.
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Yep, i hear you… not everything is the way our own situation is… it sucks to be an outlier
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Yeah, trust me, I get it.
Just that for my D25 this has been her dream school, ever since a senior from whom she took over a business club leadership role, went to Kelley. She really looked up to her, and it’s been an emotional ride for us as far as Kelley goes.
She already has quite a few good options, which are perhaps better than Kelley if we were to think rationally, but she’s had her heart set on Kelley, which perhaps was a mistake; we took their petition process lightly.
They don’t recalculate. They take the highest listed on your transcript. So those that show weighted win.
- Earned a cumulative GPA of 3.8 on a 4.0 scale from a single high school. We will use the highest GPA that is sent to IU Admissions from your official high school transcript. If your high school calculates and provides a weighted GPA, the weighted GPA will be used to determine eligibility for direct admission.
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Just being lazy, because it works for them.
Totally the other end of holistic spectrum… lol…
Agree! Mine is coming from a top ranked hs in the state where the graduating class has 47 NMS and the state as a rule only uses 4.0 max, and grade deflation is legitimate and known. But the education is top notch. DA is pretty much necessary if a student chooses to spend north if 200k on oos education.
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